They’ll probably do well to finish 8th in the championship next season.
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I think they are largely right about the Moyes era, but think they took the wrong lesson. “Success” in football when it isnt built on solid foundations is capricious. In first full season in charge he took a side that had been regularly bottom half and occasionally relegation threatened and got them to within one spot of a european place. The following year he took them back to within one spot of relegation. The following year back to the European spots, hitting his high point, but that followed by another bottom half finish. The following year he had them back performing again and then stabilized them into arguably the best, most consistent non-CL side over that 5-6 year period.
The point they should have taken from all that is “success” always has to be qualified, even after a turn around in a results a team can fall back considerably with regression to the mean or bad luck if they don’t have really good foundations, and that all takes time, patience, and acceptance of the occasional bad patch/season.
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I made the mistake of looking at the #Rafa tredning on twitter yesterday. It was odd to me that so many of the fans blame him, and even more so the commonality of the somewhat unusual language used to describe it - “ripped the heart out of the club”.
Where has this come from?
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Well right now the BBC are running article about how shit they are, which basically says that Saint Frank inherited a mess from Rafa.
Despite the crux of the article being about how yesterday was by far their worst performance of the season, it’s still somehow Rafa’s fault and nothing to do with Lampard’s managerial ability.
Lampard can hardly be held responsible for the many failings inflicted on this proud club before his arrival
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Complete lack of self awareness and akin to the fallacy that a ‘golden bullet’ or ‘magic pill’ can instantly resolve a problem there seems to be the thought among them that there is single point of origin that their malaise can be attributed to, in this case, Rafa. Misguided and deserving of relegation, I’m happy to report.
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It’s funny isn’t it, they’re just so desperate for him to be the scape goat.
Wasn’t Rafa that played a high line against Spurs. Wasn’t Rafa that failed to shut up shop at 3-0 to try and keep an air of respectability about it. Wasn’t Rafa that brought in Alli and DvdB. Wasn’t Rafa that wasted hundreds of millions on dross like Keane, Mina, Delph, Gomes, Iwobi and Tosun.
They binned off Brands for his terrible transfer dealings, sided with Rafa in his dispute with Digne allowing him to be sold, replaced him with someone you assume was of Rafa’s choosing and then they sacked Rafa the following week. That kind of decision making has got them to where they are.
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End of the day it’s hard to blame the guy who got 18 of your current 22 points but they’ve done a good job
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Rafa stepped into a club in which its 3 best assets had either given up on them (James, Ancellotti) or permanently unavailable (Gylfi) and then was asked to just get on with it with no further funds given, and shortly after an acceptance of the shitness of their planning was made in the sacking of Brands.
That’s what Rafa inherrited.
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Wasn’t Rafa who got 13 points from 10 games to finish last season either…
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Probably because he is a red. They are hurting and just lashing out.
FIFY
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What made them think that Fwank with his record of defensive naivete in both Derby and Chelsea would be able to fix the defensive messes of a club that even someone like Rafa(Who’s known for his pragmaticism) couldn’t ?
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God I fucking hope they go down.
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Exactly. I don’t think he was 100% sacked for results alone. Basically his red past. Players and fans couldn’t accept it.
Hilarious that their own vitriol towards Rafa may actually be the final straw that sends them down. They’ll never admit it of course.
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The fans accepting that they were to blame for Everton being relegated.
Nope, That’ll never happen
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Throw the book at them. 22 points at least.
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with an additional 50 points each season for the next 5 years
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